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Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.

Key Features

Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to same

Explores the family context in relation to children’s behavioral outcomes

Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations

Identifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathology

Examines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention

PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD

PART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality10. Measures of Personality

PART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures

PART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide

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About the Author

Carina Coulacoglou

Dr. Carina Coulacoglou is a test developer and the founder of the Projective Fairy Tale Test Society. The Fairy Tale Test (FTT) is a comprehensive personality test for children (6-12 years of age. The test has been standardized in several cultures and is published in 13 languages. She has taught courses on child development and psychological assessment at the University of La Verne (Athens campus), the Mediterranean college and Pantion University of Athens. She has published several articles and books.

Affiliations and Expertise

Fairy Tale Test Society, Athens, Greece

Donald Saklofske

Dr. Donald H. Saklofske is Professor, Department of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario, Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University and International Research Associate, University of Florence. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Canadian Psychological Association. Don's research focuses on personality, intelligence, individual differences and psychological assessment. He has published more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and books. He is Editor-in-Chief of Personality and Individual Differences and Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Affiliations and Expertise

University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

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